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The Sign of non-Gaussianity and the Primordial Black Holes Abundance

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arxiv 2309.10536 v1 pith:AN6ZZJSY submitted 2023-09-19 astro-ph.CO gr-qchep-phhep-th

The Sign of non-Gaussianity and the Primordial Black Holes Abundance

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The abundance of primordial black holes changes in the presence of local non-Gaussianity. A positive non-linear parameter $f_{NL}$ increases the abundance while a negative one reduces it. We show that in non-attractor single-field models of inflation which enhance the curvature power spectrum and may give rise to primordial black holes, $f_{NL}$ is always positive, when computed in correspondence of the peak of the curvature power spectrum where the primordial black hole abundance has its maximum. This implies that the interpretation of the recent pulsar timing arrays data from scalar-induced gravitational waves generated at primordial black hole formation may not be supported by invoking non-Gaussianity within non-attractor single-field models.

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